Tropical fruit salad

Name: Tropical fruit salad
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 7 min
Total time: 27 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 4 passion fruit; 100 g (3½oz) golden caster sugar; 50 mL (2fl oz) white rum or Malibu; Zest and juice of 1 lime; 125 g (4oz) punnet of cranberries; 1 pineapple, peeled, cored and sliced lengthways; 1 papaya, peeled, halved, deseeded and sliced lengthways; 1 large ripe mango, peeled, halved and cut into slices; 1 large banana, sliced on the diagonal

This fruit salad recipe is full of tropical flavours and is perfect as a light dessert choice.

By The GH Kitchen TeamPublished: 17 December 2002

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Yields:

Prep Time:

20 mins

Cook Time:

7 mins

Total Time:

27 mins

Ingredients

4 passion fruit
100 g (3½oz) golden caster sugar
50 ml (2fl oz) white rum or Malibu
Zest and juice of 1 lime
125 g (4oz) punnet of cranberries
1 pineapple, peeled, cored and sliced lengthways
1 papaya, peeled, halved, deseeded and sliced lengthways
1 large ripe mango, peeled, halved and cut into slices
1 large banana, sliced on the diagonal

Directions

1. Step 1
  Rest a sieve on a small pan, halve the passion fruit and scrape into the sieve. Stir the seeds with a wooden spoon to extract the juice. Discard the seeds.
2. Step 2
  Put the sugar, rum, lime zest and juice into the pan and heat gently to make a syrup. Add the cranberries and cook on a medium heat for 5min. Allow to cool.
3. Step 3
  Put the pineapple, papaya, mango and banana in a large bowl. Pour cranberries and syrup over fruit. Leave to marinate at room temperature for at least 30min to let the flavours develop before serving.
  
  Get truly tropical with these other great fruit dessert recipes:
  
  Fresh mango and pineapple salad
  
  Summer fruit with raspberry cream
  
  Summer fruit compote

Per Serving:

Calories: 120
Total carbs: 28 g

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